Word: thou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, one author quotes this section of an Orthodox Jewish prayer: "Blessed art thou, Oh Lord, that I was not born a slave. Blessed art thou, Oh Lord, that I was not born a woman." Another author describes a story in a recently published children's textbook...
...bless thyself; thou met'st with things dying...
...became progressively more incensed reading your recent article by the "volunteer patient" at Boston State Hospital fill at the end I was seething. It was a sanctimonious, closed-eyed, holier-than-thou look at a place with good and bad points, with choices, and with many people who care...
...Lehane became interested in the flea while in Dublin. The insects' concern was only skin-deep, but Lehane's soon reached the proportions of an idée fixe. In The Compleat Flea, he traces the bug's literary ancestry beyond the Bible ("After whom dost thou pursue?" asks David of Saul, "after a dead dog, after a flea...
...Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Blake and Bunyan, St. Augustine and Simone Weil. We respect but may not share his feeling that Christ himself once was with him and the BBC television crew on the road to Emmaus. His epigraph from George Herbert perhaps speaks most adequately for him: "O that Thou shouldst give dust a tongue to crie to Thee...